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• So A Glitzy New Concert Hall For London Is Canceled? No Great Loss

  09-11-2016 23:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Those who thought the whole thing an unnecessary extravagance, a vanity project dreamed up by Rattle and Nicholas Kenyon, director of the Barbican Centre, at a time when arts organisations across the country were struggling to fund performances in the spaces that already existed, were drowned out by those determined to give the returning hero Rattle whatever he wanted.”
  
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• When Celebs We Love Make Tweets Or Videos Or Facebook Posts We Hate

  09-11-2016 23:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In today’s media climate, Oscar Wilde was right: “The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.” Which means that famous people who want to remain famous must constantly create new content of some sort to talk about. That means a lot of chances for fallible human beings to make mistakes.
  
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• Is The Cult Film On The Way To Going Extinct?

  09-11-2016 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In today’s fragmented, ever-churning pop culture ecosystem, the long tail of home video that once gave oddball movies a shot at a glorious cult afterlife has shortened to the point of vanishing. With even big-budget commercial films often struggling to break through the endless clutter of content, the challenge for smaller, quirkier fare is that much harder.”
  
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• Despite Fear and Uncertainty, Parts of Art Market May Benefit From a Trump Presidency, Insiders Say

  09-11-2016 22:23 via artnews.com
  Every four years, the fall sales in New York coincide with the presidential election, as they’re always held the second week of November. With that comes a degree of uncertainty, since the election of a new leader can upend markets and shift … Read More
  
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• Alfred Hitchcock Harassed And Bullied Tippi Hedren? That’s Not What We Remember, Say Cast And Crew Of ‘The Birds’

  09-11-2016 22:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In her new [memoir], Hedren alleges that the director made sexual approaches to her and regarded her as his personal property. … [Two biographers] argue that Hedren’s claims are not supported by others who worked on the films, or by the shooting schedules and other documents in Hitchcock’s archive.”
  
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• Poetry to honour victims on anniversary of Paris terrorist attacks

  09-11-2016 22:00
  
  The Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris (IMA) will honour the victims of the terrorist attacks in the city last winter with poetry readings running throughout the night on 12 November. These will mark the events of 13 November last year, when simultaneous attacks orchestrated by Islamic extremists at the Bataclan theatre and at several restaurants in Paris killed 130 people.
  Participants in the poetry night include the Lebanese artist Zeina Abirached, who will illustrate poems selected by the Fren
  
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• Paris Photo turns 20

  09-11-2016 22:00
  
  Last year was one to forget for the Parisian photography fair. The terrorist attacks that took place on Friday 13 November and caused the deaths of around 130 people, forced the city into shutdown. The fair was cut short, forgoing a weekends worth of sales and almost 40,000 visitors. This year, the fair and the citys institutions are rallying to put last years events out of mind and give the grande dame of photography fairs the 20th anniversary it deserves.
  The the Pompidou Centre is showing 10
  
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• Object lessons: from Cartier-Bresson Spanish street scene to Bowie's sculptural Auerbach

  09-11-2016 22:00
  
  Henri Cartier-Bresson, Madrid (1933) 
  Eric Franck/Augusta Edwards, Paris Photo, 10-13 November  
  Priced between 20,000 and 30,000Adding historical weight to the offerings at Paris Photo fair are vintage photographs from the 19th and 20th centuries, including a number of photographs taken by Henri Cartier-Bresson. The father of reportage photography, Cartier-Bresson travelled across Europe during the 1930s, prowling the streets with a lightweight Leica to record the lives of the poor.
  
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• Looted Constable returned by Tate heads to auction at Christie’s

  09-11-2016 22:00
  
  A John Constable oil painting deaccessioned by the Tate as Nazi-era loot is coming up for sale at Christies, London on 8 December, with an estimate of 500,000-800,000. Entitled Beaching a Boat, Brighton (1824), it is being sold by the heirs of Baron Ferenc Hatvany.The Constable painting had been donated to the Tate in 1986 by a Mrs P.M. Rainsford. There was then a gap in its provenance from 1908 to 1962. A few years ago a Nazi-era claim was made by the Hatvany heirs and in March 2014 the UKs Sp
  
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• Atlanta’s Woodruff Center Raises More Than $110 Million In A “Transformation” Campaign

  09-11-2016 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “That is $10 million more than the goal set for Woodruff’s Transformation Campaign when it began in 2014. Of that money, about $35 million will be used to pay for capital expenses, including the new Alliance Theatre main stage facility that is slated to begin construction next year, the remodeling of the High Café and a new roof for the Stent Family Wing of the High Museum of Art.”
  
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• Michelangelo’s First Big Career Boost Was As A Forger

  09-11-2016 21:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The story goes that in 1496, when he was a young unknown, Michelangelo (or his dealer) took his new sculpture of Cupid, buried it to age it, and sold it to a Cardinal as an antiquity. He did get caught, but …
  
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• ‘The Legacy of Luis Barragán’ at Timothy Taylor 16 x 34, New York

  09-11-2016 20:57 via artnews.com
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• How Do You Get Audience Data That Matters? (Some Suggestions From Someone Who’s Been Doing It)

  09-11-2016 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The difference in data collection priorities is not simply a qualitative versus quantitative debate, as one of the shared areas of interest for organisers and funders is whether the event has reached individuals who do not normally engage with culture. But even here, opinions differ on how much information is needed from visitors, sample size and how it should be collected (the data collection mechanisms used).”
  
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• Broadway’s First A Cappella Musical Is Coming, And Here’s A Chat With The Woman Who Co-Wrote It (And ‘Frozen’)

  09-11-2016 20:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Kristen Anderson-Lopez on In Transit: “When we started this a lot of people didn’t know what a cappella was. For advertising in the Off-Broadway version, we called it ‘vocal orchestration,’ because a cappella was this weird Latin term that the marketing team was afraid would alienate people. Now our tagline is ‘Broadway’s first a cappella musical.’ The culture’s awareness and understanding of a cappella, and all the things a cappella can do, has ch
  
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• The Dearly Departed, Digitally Remastered So You Can Be With Them Forever

  09-11-2016 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It’s possible. We capture enough of our loved ones digitally that recreating a version of them is within reach. “A digital bereavement company has captured and analysed torrents of data about your husband to create a digital likeness. His voice, his gait, his idiosyncrasies and mannerisms, the undulations of his laugh – all are replicated with near-perfect similitude. Spending time with your digitally reborn spouse has become a part of your daily routine.”
  
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• Jean Jacques Perrey, Granddaddy Of Pop Electronica, Dead At 87

  09-11-2016 19:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “For those who don’t realize it, Jean-Jacques first started recording electronic music in 1952, long before the Moog synthesizer was first made for sale in 1967. … “His crazy, happy music has been heard everywhere from commercials, to Sesame Street – in hip-hop songs, in dance remixes and most famously, for decades in the delightful featured music in Disneyland’s ‘Main Street Electrical Parade.'”
  
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• Alan Collins obituary

  09-11-2016 18:39 via theguardian.com
  
  Sculptor who was highly skilled at religious and commemorative artAlan Collins, who has died aged 88, was an accomplished figurative sculptor, whose crisp, lucid work appeared in a host of settings in both Britain and the US. As a public artist, he attracted the patronage of corporations such as the National and Grindlays Bank, whose commission Minerva (1966) is located just north of Southwark Cathedral in south London.Its stylised, angular forms and contemporary materials – fibre-reinforc
  
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• 50,000 Chinese Break Record For Simultaneous Coordinated Dancing

  09-11-2016 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Did you even know there was a Guinness record for such a thing? “A video of the Sunday event shows a total 50,085 people performing a dance routine at the same time in cities including Shanghai, Xi’an, Zhengzhou, Chongqing and Shenzhen.”
  
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• China Passes New Law: Movies Must ‘Serve The People And Socialism’

  09-11-2016 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It forbids content that stirs up opposition to the law or constitution, harms national unity, sovereignty or territorial integrity, exposes national secrets, harms Chinese security, dignity, honour or interests, or spreads terrorism or extremism. Also banned are subjects that ‘defame the people’s excellent cultural traditions’, incite ethnic hatred or discrimination, or destroy ethnic unity.”
  
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• Cairo’s leading Townhouse Gallery officially reopens in converted paper factory

  09-11-2016 15:22
  
  Cairos Townhouse Gallery officially reopened at the end of September with an exhibition of photographs documenting the city by the locally based artist Bryony Dunne. The non-profit organisation is now holding all exhibitions in a new gallery in its Factory spacea converted paper factory that also hosts film screenings and workshops.
  The leading contemporary art venue relocated after Egyptian armed police enforced the partial demolition of its main building in April. Some of the gallery had alre
  
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• Morning Links: The Art World Reacts to a Trump Victory Edition

  09-11-2016 15:13 via artnews.com
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• Berlin to build temporary exhibition space amid Pergamon Museum delays

  09-11-2016 14:46
  
  Berlins museum authorities have announced plans to build a temporary exhibition space so that visitors can soak up the ancient city of Pergamon despite building work that is set to hamper access to the Pergamon Museum for many years.
  The new building will be located opposite Museum Island, a short distance from the Pergamon Museum. It will house a panorama of the ancient city by the Berlin-based artist Yadegar Asisi and a 3D reconstruction of the famous Pergamon altar, which is currently not on
  
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• Artists express dismay at Donald Trump’s US election victory

  09-11-2016 12:28
  
  Leading artists raised millions for Hillary Clintons unsuccessful campaign to become the first female US President while her rival, the Republican nominee Donald Trump, found little favour with the art world. On the morning after the property developer and political outsiders victory, artists in the US and abroad have been quick to express their disappointment.
  The Berlin- and London-based artist, Wolfgang Tillmans, re-posted on Instagram an image of the Statue of Liberty weeping, while the Bra
  
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• Kerry James Marshall, Met Breuer, New York: review

  09-11-2016 12:19
  This exultant show is both a homage and a riposte to the canon of western art
  
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• John Minton painting resurfaces after years spent in owner's shed

  09-11-2016 12:19 via theguardian.com
  
  Jamaican Village is unusually cheerful work by artist better known for gloomy scenesA major work by the 20th-century British painter John Minton, which spent years stored in a shed while its owner struggled to find a wall large enough to hang it, has resurfaced more than 60 years after it was last seen in public.
  Jamaican Village, an unusually cheerful view of a dusky street corner and a brightly lit bar from an artist not noted for jolly scenes – one critic of an early exhibition commente
  
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• Ewan McGregor, Douglas Gordon and Guggenheim director call for Edinburgh’s Inverleith House to be saved

  09-11-2016 11:48
  
  More than 200 art professionals including the artists Douglas Gordon and Martin Boyce, and Richard Armstrong, the director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation, have signed an open letter calling for Inverleith House in Edinburgh, one of Scotlands leading galleries, to re-open after its closure last month.
  The gallery, the birthplace of the Scottish Gallery of Modern Art in 1960, was shut as part of a cost-cutting exercise by the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE), which runs t
  
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• Peek into Ai Weiwei’s mobile phone photos in Amsterdam exhibition

  09-11-2016 00:07
  
  Around 16,500 photographs taken by the Chinese activist-artist Ai Weiwei just before and after his 2011 arrest in Beijing are on view in the exhibition #SafePassage at the Fotografiemuseum in Amsterdam (until 7 December). The images, mostly captured on Ais mobile phone, show the struggle between the individual and systemic structures that dominate society, says Mirjam Kooiman, the museums curatorplus it offers a inside peek at the artists life. Its like were looking at his iCloud.  The exh
  
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